Most backup tools are agnostic. They use Vmwares' functions to do the backups and the vmware tools to either quiesce the file system, create deltas etc. The process in how it is done is similar across all platforms, Veeam Acronis, Nakivo etc. The performance is dependent on how well the hardware performs. For example I have one server that isn't very large on the same host as a server that is a massive moving target (non stop writing/reading). One will backup much faster than the other depending on the storage capabilities, network capabilities .. overall the hardware capabilities. If I moved both servers to a new host with better hardware, faster network, the backups times and performance would increase on both. To the point where possibly there is no disruption for either server.
The question is whether or not people have done virtual backups on CHR's without disruptions, specifically on this Maxxwave. HA (high availability) has nothing to do with this scenario. The CHR would have to be non responsive for quite a long time without any other processes still taking place to it (the entire backup process would have had to have crashed). For me HA only works if a server is down on 1 host, it'll bring it up on another host. It won't bring up copies of VM's if a backup is taking a while. If any backup takes that long I'd never use it as a router. Now there is proactive HA - but that is a recipe for disaster when running routers. DRS as well is part of that equation and I wouldn't recommend that either for a router. It could possibly be a switching nightmare unless you have the higher end vsphere setup with vswitches and virtual networking. I'm just running standard Vsphere. I think though Mikrotik CHR's are pretty lightweight compared to some servers. Most can be contained in memory with little disk IO so snapshots and commits will be quick. The question was if any customers use the Maxxwave and how it performs with backups/snapshots. Also I reviewed the spec sheet and it does show support for larger than 10Gbps. -- Steven Kenney Network Operations Manager WaveDirect Telecommunications http://www.wavedirect.net (519)737-WAVE (9283) From: "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> To: "af" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 9:22:04 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CCR2004 coming out Your backup lag/performance is your backup tool. If you do a snapshot and copy, that will mostly halt your system until it can set aside a temporary disk. If you do HA it won't cause any delay. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 8:51 AM Steven Kenney < [ mailto:st...@wavedirect.org | st...@wavedirect.org ] > wrote: I remember seeing these several years ago. Anyone know if they have support coming for faster than 10Gbps? Anyone run these in an actual vsphere environment? How are snapshots and backups for it? Any lag or performance hits during the process? -- Steven Kenney Network Operations Manager WaveDirect Telecommunications [ http://www.wavedirect.net/ | http://www.wavedirect.net ] (519)737-WAVE (9283) From: "Kurt Fankhauser" < [ mailto:lists.wavel...@gmail.com | lists.wavel...@gmail.com ] > To: "af" < [ mailto:af@af.afmug.com | af@af.afmug.com ] > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 11:02:28 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CCR2004 coming out Baltic does not have any native x86 Mikrotik Router. They are using CHR on the Maxxwave Vengence appliance, which works remarkably well. On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 9:52 AM Josh Luthman < [ mailto:j...@imaginenetworksllc.com | j...@imaginenetworksllc.com ] > wrote: BQ_BEGIN Baltic seems to be the go to for x86 Mikrotik. He seems to always be on top of it. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 3:13 PM Kurt Fankhauser < [ mailto:lists.wavel...@gmail.com | lists.wavel...@gmail.com ] > wrote: BQ_BEGIN I will second the Baltic Networks Vengence 2 CHR. Has been nothing but totally reliable since we got one in January. Only pushing about 1.5gbps through it though, but BGP converge times are insanely fast and it was darn near the same cost as a CCR1072. On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:25 PM James Howard < [ mailto:ja...@litewire.net | ja...@litewire.net ] > wrote: BQ_BEGIN Yeah, there seems to be is the key…… I did that with the last one and had some compatibility issues with the SFP+ cards and didn’t really end up saving any money over buying one already put together. From: AF [mailto: [ mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com | af-boun...@af.afmug.com ] ] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:13 AM To: [ mailto:af@af.afmug.com | af@af.afmug.com ] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CCR2004 coming out I'd imagine you can source a pretty burly network appliance PC from somewhere. There seem to be dozens of options. On 5/12/2020 11:57 AM, James Howard wrote: BQ_BEGIN Baltic says they aren’t sure when they’re going to get the Maxxwave in again. We have one of the Maxxwave i7s and would just get more if they were available. I was hoping Dennis would reply. They don’t seem to list the PowerRouter that they used to sell on their site anymore. From: AF [ [ mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com | mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com ] ] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:45 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' [ mailto:af@af.afmug.com | <af@af.afmug.com> ] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CCR2004 coming out Baltic/Maxxwave has one, but their web store shows out of stock, is it actually discontinued? Linktechs might have one, if you don’t want to build your own. From: AF < [ mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com | af-boun...@af.afmug.com ] > On Behalf Of James Howard Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:17 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' < [ mailto:af@af.afmug.com | af@af.afmug.com ] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CCR2004 coming out So what is awesome and available now? We had an i7 box (network appliance I guess) running Mikrotik take a dump so we need to get another backup (or two). Nobody seems to have i7 based Mikrotik boxes available. BGP is a must. We’re running CHR on our current boxes. From: AF [ [ mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com | mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com ] ] On Behalf Of Dennis Burgess via AF Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:51 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < [ mailto:af@af.afmug.com | af@af.afmug.com ] > Cc: Dennis Burgess < [ mailto:dmburg...@linktechs.net | dmburg...@linktechs.net ] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CCR2004 coming out I would not expect it to be "AWSOME" till v7.... Dennis Burgess Mikrotik : Trainer, Network Associate, Routing Engineer, Wireless Engineer, Traffic Control Engineer, Inter-Networking Engineer, Security Engineer, Enterprise Wireless Engineer Hurricane Electric: IPv6 Sage Level Cambium: ePMP Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second Edition" Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services Office: 314-735-0270 Website: [ http://www.linktechs.net/ | http://www.linktechs.net ] Create Wireless Coverage's with [ http://www.towercoverage.com/ | www.towercoverage.com ] -----Original Message----- From: AF < [ mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com%3e | af-boun...@af.afmug.com> ] On Behalf Of [ mailto:fiber...@mail.com | fiber...@mail.com ] Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 11:51 PM To: [ mailto:af@af.afmug.com | af@af.afmug.com ] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CCR2004 coming out Surprisingly bad BGP results from the CCR2004 [ https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=161044 | https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=161044 ] -- AF mailing list [ mailto:AF@af.afmug.com | AF@af.afmug.com ] [ http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com | http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ] -- AF mailing list [ mailto:AF@af.afmug.com | AF@af.afmug.com ] [ http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com | http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ] Total Control Panel [ https://asp.reflexion.net/login?domain=litewire.net | Login ] To: [ https://asp.reflexion.net/address-properties?aID=242260993&domain=litewire.net | ja...@litewire.net ] From: [ mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com | af-boun...@af.afmug.com ] You received this message because the domain [ http://afmug.com/ | afmug.com ] is on your allow list. 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